Treachery amidst morality

We are here fighting between UMNO and its adversary. Some pesky and irritable fellow have been asking me to answer the difference between Isa Samad and KJ. I have no wish to entertain his wet dreams. Our barrage of arguments should be directed at demolishing the opposition. Yet some UMNO lunatic freaks insist on settling some unfinished scores. Let's wait for the next UMNO elections shall we? Are you infected with KJphyllis? Go write your own blog or go to someone else's blog.

At the moment I am interested to verify the accuracy of some whispers passed on to me by some PKR people. Did Anwar Ibrahim meet up with PM Najib and did some horse trading? Surely we can't be satisfied with an answer like- sure I meet him all the time, in parliament, here and there.

Have you ever seen Anwar Ibrahim acting coy when asked did he meet up with PM Najib? This man has never been known to downplay any chance to amplify his cause with the media if given the opportunity. This is the man who will not un-seven eleven himself to talk about 'principles' such as meritocracy, accountability, transparency, integrity and so forth. Yet he was evasive in this instance. He could have said categorically no. Perhaps purposely so. If such a meeting did actually take place, it was leaked out by somebody. He/she must have been at the meeting.

Or, the leak was also done on purpose to test public acceptance or rejection. In which case, we are all suckered.

Fact or fiction?

Maybe Anwar Ibrahim isn't above making deals for himself in spite of the pontifications about values, morality and that entire renaissance sounding gimmickry. He will not care about all the hopes and emotional camaraderie that he has built up among loyal friends, devotees and all that. He cares for his interests and the interests of his loved ones.

That in itself is not morally faulty. Every one of us, share the same feelings. Except that Anwar Ibrahim is not every one. Because he is Anwar Ibrahim, he shoulders a higher degree of accountability. His position will become blameworthy when he, who goes about with the iconic name ANWAR IBRAHIM abandons all the trust and faith invested on him, he abandons all the principles that he has so heroically fought. Once he assumed leadership on these principles, breathe and live with them, if he then abandons them, he deserves to be abandoned in turn. He simply can't turn his back on his followers.

It reminds us of the cavalier answer he gave to Tun Dr Mahathir when Anwar asked-is it bad to be having sex scandals? To which Mahathir answered- for the lesser mortals they are irrelevant, but for one who has been talking constantly about principles and Islam there and here, yes and decidedly relevant. Or something to the effect.

I mean, for someone who has been talking about moral cleanliness, transparency, all the principles, to such an extent that so much so he has been identified as the paragon of all virtues that are desirable, for him to suddenly abandon this cause in exchange for 'baser' personal interests, is utterly shocking.

So what's the subject matter of the deal?

Perhaps this time, the case against Anwar regarding all the charges that are known in 1 Malaysia, has substance after all. The matter hasn't been brought before the court and therefore we have no way of endorsing the claims of a medical report saying there were no traces of sodomy or whatever. Until then, this People can claim this and that- but until it's proven or disproven in court, the coming trial for the PKR de facto leader is potentially damaging and energy sapping.

Why is Anwar so eager to disqualify the prosecution team if he is so cocksure that he has a watertight case to exonerate him? Ah yes…we are entreated to another rounds of allegations that the judiciary is rotten.

Let's make a deal upon such terms as follows: the government will not contest to Anwar's claim that he is innocent. In return Anwar will instruct his foot soldiers to lay off the issue of the Mongolian matter. Anwar and his scarlet O'Hara may decide to retire into the American sunset somewhere in some nice home there. Or, he may have also asked the government not to go after his children and their interests (business, political) with vengeance. Like ordinary mortals, he wants the family to be taken care of and not victimized.

The icing on the cake will be his 'nonfeasance' over the coming breakdown of the Selangor government. He will not actively intervene to stop the tectonic fissures that have developed and are developing that will see the demise of the Khalid Ibrahim government. By refusing to use his influence to solve the Selangor problem, Anwar contributes to the handing of Selangor to the BN by default. Anwar Ibrahim sees a drowning man. He does nothing to save the man from drowning. His action is not legally wrong but its morally reprehensible.

If these shady backroom deals are true, this development is certainly a cause for worry to the PKR leadership who have fought very hard and honorably to uphold the principles on which PKR is said to be found. I have no problems with people standing by their party of choice. I only asked to be given the same right.